24X fruit and veg flash cards. Can be used with ESOL learners, primary aged school children and Functional Skills learners E1 - E3. Get your learners to put the cards in alphabetical order by identifying both the first letter and second letter. These can be used for other activities. Prints double sided. A4 PDF document.

An English Article Writing Activity. This task gives the learner the following scenario: Your country’s football team have won the UEFA European Championship! To celebrate, you are planning to host a FREE entry party in the gardens of your local church. Ideas are given to what the learner may want to writing in the article, space is provided for planning and an article planning grid and writing paper are attached.

An A3 worksheet that learners can fill in as they read through the novel.

Fun quiz with answers: Can you name the Roald Dahl books by looking at the illustrations on their front covers?

This activity is based on the Roald Dahl book: The Witches. It focuses on the chapter: How to Recognize Witches. The first activity is to get learners to use their skimming and scanning skills and to extract information from the book. The second activity is an article writing task. Great for KS2 & KS3.

An English Reading Comprehension Activity. This resource gives the learner an overview of the celebration: Day of the Dead. Learners will read the text and then answer ten skimming and scanning questions based on this document. There is also an extension question. Answers are provided so that learners can self mark.

Two tasks that test whether students know the difference between facts and opinions. Great lesson fillers. Answer provided for both sheets.

15X Poetry Anthology Flashcards. Double-sided. Printed double-sided on A4 paper. 4 cards per sheet. Each card, on the reverse, has a number of key quotes from each poem. These can be cut-out and laminated to be used as flashcards for revision. I have also attached 15x blank cards so you can get your students to locate and write down their own key quotes. In order to print correctly, print ‘double sided’ whilst also choosing the ‘flip on short edge’ option.

This is a three page PDF document designed to help students to answer Q3 in their English language paper. The first page gives an overview of the following: What is structure What to expect to see in Q3 How to answer the question List of structural techniques Page 2 contains other relevant information about Q3 and what to look for when examining each section of the text. Page 3 gives learners a template that they can use to answer the question, which is based on the PEE paragraph structure. This is ideal for those struggling with answering this question.

3X Flashcard sheets that contain 21 different reading tasks that learners can complete during or following the reading of the play. The tasks are based on the lay ’DNA’ and includes tasks such as: Article Writing Creating a Storyboard Diary Entry Writing Creating a Facebook Character Profile Creating a New Book Cover / Blurb Plus many more. These sheets are double sided ( with a DNA strand background on one side of the cards). Laminate and cut out and get your student to choose a task at random.

An English Reading Comprehension Activity. This resource gives the learner an overview The English National Football Team and the World Cup. They will then be asked to answer 10 skimming and scanning questions based on the document and an extension question. Answers are provided so that learners can self mark. PLEASE NOTE THIS RESOURCE HAS BEEN RE-UPLOADED 08/10/23 AFTER A SPELLING ERROR WAS NOTED

A great lesson starter to get your students to remember character’s names and themes from the play. Instructions: Cut out the images on the grid sheet and place them inside of a container. Give each player a bingo card. As you draw an image from the container, ask the players to cross them out on their grid sheet. The first player who gets 3 in a row, wins the first round! Continue playing the game until someone gets a full house!

An A3 revision PDF poster that will help learners to remember how to format different types of texts. Letter writing Email Writing Article & Review Writing Report Writing

2X skimming & scamming tasks. The learner reads two short texts and answers questions about these texts by using their skimming and scanning skills. Answers are provided so that students can self mark. Topics: Football & Reality TV This would suit High Level E3 and L1 and L2 learners.

Letter Writing booklet. The learner has three letter writing tasks to complete. This booklet would suit L1 and L2 learners

A fun English game designed for my KS3 class to help them with their creative writing. The board contains a series of 5 prompts which will allow the learner to build their story: setting, main character, genre, main theme and conflict. Give the student a dice piece. They will roll the dice piece 5 times moving from left to right of the board. for example: The first number is a 4 which refers to the setting. Therefore, their story will be set on a train. The next number rolled is a 1, which mean the genre will be gothic / horror. the learner will then write a short story based on what they rolled on the prompt board. # E.g: A gothic short story set on a train featuring a teenage boy. The main theme is survival with the conflict in the story being the character vs the supernatural.

A fun English game designed for my KS3 class to help them with their creative writing. The board contains a series of 5 prompts which will allow the learner to build their short Science Fiction story: setting, main character, main character trait, main theme and conflict. Give the student a dice piece. They will roll the dice piece 5 times moving from left to right of the board. For example: The first number refers to the setting, the second number rolled refers to the story’s main character…etc… The learner will then write a short story based on what they rolled on the prompt board.

An English Reading Comprehension Skimming & Scanning Activity. A starter activity / worksheet. This would be ideal for E2 - E3 Functional Skills learners and low ability pupils in the KS3 & KS4 age groups. Based on Barack Obama, learners will the short source document before answering six skimming and scanning questions. Answers are provided so learners can self mark.

This is a 13 page PPT on how to write an article. The PPT includes: What is an article? What do I include in an article? Step-by-Step article format and content slides Examples throughout PPT Layout of an article 3 practice question tasks

This is a 18 page PPT on how to write an email. The PPT includes: What is an email ? What do I include in an email? Step-by-Step emailing format and content slides ( email address, subject, greeting, introduction, main body, conclusion and sign off) Examples throughout PPT Layout of an email 1 email formatting task 3 practice question tasks